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Contractual Drafting for Sale & Purchase Agreements Under FuelEU Maritime
As regulatory obligations under FuelEU Maritime begin to settle into market practice, maritime lawyers and shipowners face new challenges: crafting robust S&P contracts for ships that safeguard from unexpected regulatory and commercial liability. While our previous newsletter addressed the general compliance responsibilities of buyers and sellers ( “Selling and Buying Ships Under FuelEU Maritime” ), this edition moves beyond theory and provides actionable legal guidance for d
Nov 233 min read


BetterSea and Evigo by OSM Thome Form Partnership to Deliver Standardized & Streamlined FuelEU Pooling Solution to Maritime Customers.
BetterSea and Evigo by OSM Thome Form Partnership to Deliver Standardized & Streamlined
FuelEU Pooling to Maritime Customers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Evigo will white-label BetterSea’s FuelEU Platform, offering it under the Evigo brand. The FuelEU pooling option complements Evigo’s existing services, the collaboration enables Evigo to provide its customers with direct access to BetterSea’s standardized FuelEU pooling framework.
Nov 62 min read


FuelEU Pooling Market Participants & What You Should Consider
As the first FuelEU Maritime compliance cycle progresses, the surplus market has expanded rapidly. What began as a maritime compliance instrument has evolved into a traded commodity, and in doing so, it has attracted far more participants than the regulation or its creators appear to have anticipated. FuelEU pooling rights and who holds them The regulation assigns the compliance responsibility and as such the right to pool to the ISM company. However, contractual arrangements
Oct 273 min read


Settlement Terms in Charter Party Agreements under FuelEU Maritime
FuelEU Maritime compliance brings new commercial challenges. While the regulation defines penalties and created a surplus trading market,...
Sep 74 min read


BetterSea Launches the World’s First FuelEU Index, Signaling a New Era of Transparency and Trading Confidence
BetterSea Launches the World’s First FuelEU Index, Signaling a New Era of Transparency and Trading Confidence
Aug 132 min read


Proof of Sustainability (PoS) and Proof of Compliance (PoC) under FuelEU Maritime and EU ETS
The FuelEU Maritime Regulation and the EU ETS both rely heavily on fuel-level data to determine compliance and reward the uptake of...
Jul 64 min read


Case Study IX: Biofuel vs Pooling – A Real-World Voyage Scenario
As shipping companies navigate the complex cost landscape shaped by FuelEU Maritime, understanding the trade-offs between compliance...
Jun 223 min read


BetterSea and Normec Verifavia Partner to Revolutionize FuelEU Compliance with Seamless Data Validation and Pool Verification
May 22, 2025 – As the maritime industry navigates compliance with FuelEU Maritime, BetterSea has taken a decisive step toward simplifying...
May 213 min read


Retrospective Compliance Checks: What If Yesterday's FuelEU Compliance Becomes Today's Risk?
One of the lesser-discussed but tricky elements of the FuelEU Maritime Regulation is the power of administering states to conduct...
May 183 min read
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